Correlates of joining a sexual harassment class action

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-282

  Wright, Caroline Vaile ^a   Fitzgerald, Louise F ^b  

^a Summa Kent State Center for the Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Class action; Litigation; Organizational climate; PTSD; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049116832     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-008-9156-6     Document Type: Article

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